Thornton Wilder (123 page)

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The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder
(New York: HarperCollins, 2008) are reprinted with permission of Robin G. Wilder and Jackson R. Bryer, editors, and the Wilder Family LLC c/o The Barbara Hogenson Agency.

 

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For the courtesy of access to and use of letters by Thornton Niven Wilder and Wilder family members, the author gratefully acknowledges the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, and the kind assistance of Dr. Louise Bernard, curator of Prose and Drama, curator of American Literature. Appreciation is also extended for the courtesy of access to and use of the collections of Mabel Dodge Luhan, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Glenway Wescott, and Edmund Wilson in the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library; William Nichols at the Library of Congress; and Robert Hutchins at the University of Chicago Library. Permission to quote from Wilder's letters and papers has in all instances, including four unpublished letters to Sibyl Colefax, been granted by the Wilder Family LLC c/o The Barbara Hogenson Agency.

 

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INDEX

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Note: TNW refers to Thornton Niven Wilder. ANW refers to Amos Niven Wilder (brother). APW refers to Amos Parker Wilder (father).

Abbott, George, 447

Abbott, Mather A., 202, 239, 248, 297

Abercrombie, Gertrude, 523

Adams, John Quincy, 6

Adee, Alvey A., 30

Adenauer, Konrad, 639, 644

Aeschylus, 333–34

Air Corps Intelligence School, 538–39

Akins, Zoë, 549

Albee, Edward, 650–51, 656–57

Albert & Charles Boni, Inc., 241–45, 297, 314–15, 324

and
Bridge,
275, 277, 291, 296, 299–300, 301, 388

and
Cabala,
243–45, 251–52, 255, 259, 263, 268–69, 270

and
Woman of Andros,
333, 388

Aldis, Dorothy, 355

Allen, John, 133

Alvarado, Don, 333

Ameche, Don, 539

American Academy, Rome, 180, 186, 236–37, 278, 362, 437, 580

American Academy of Arts and Letters, 616–17

American Field Service, 115–16, 127–28, 136, 144, 150

American Foreign Service, 562–63

American-German Review,
645

American Laboratory Theatre, New York, 175, 221, 233, 252, 253, 286

Ames, Knowlton Lyman “Snake,” 248

Ames, Rosemary, 248–49, 255, 261–62, 292, 299

Amundsen, Roald, 316

Anderson, Margaret, 198

Anderson, Marian, 663

Anderson, Maxwell, 386, 582, 586, 593

Anderson, Sherwood, 213, 237, 238, 278, 298, 319, 343

Anderson, Tennessee Mitchell, 237

Andrews, Clark, 323

Ardrey, Robert, 353, 400, 481, 535

Aristophanes, 254, 626

Arizona, TNW in, 457, 654–61, 662, 664

Arliss, George, 171

Aronson, Boris, 470

Arthur, Jean, 359

Ashley, Elizabeth, 698

Aspen Company, 599–603

Asquith, Margaret, 314

Astaire, Fred, 427

Atkinson, Brooks, 454, 584, 587, 675

Atlantic Monthly,
295

Austen, Jane, 663

 

Bacon, Francis, 549

Bacon, Leonard, 579

Baer, Lewis, 241–42, 244–45, 263, 295, 296, 297, 299, 302, 313

Baker, Christina Hopkinson, 458

Baker, George Pierce, 239, 249, 458

Balzac, Honoré, 426

Bankhead, Tallulah, 532–33, 540, 544–45, 548–49, 552, 554, 586

Barker, Creighton, 391

Barrie, J. M., 109

Barry, Philip, 241

Barrymore, Ethel, 479

Barrymore, John, 154, 163

Bassanesi, Giovanni, 584

Bates, “Tia” Anna, 520, 672

Beach, Sylvia, 198, 262, 278

Beaumont, Hugh “Binkie,” 557, 562, 624, 625–26, 629

Beerbohm, Max, 413

Beer-Hofmann, Richard, 492

Beethoven, Ludwig van,
Ninth Symphony,
284

Bel Geddes, Norman, 234, 646

Bell, Alexander Graham, 86

Benét, Rosemary, 587

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 160, 161

and
S4N,
177

at Yale, 148, 149, 152, 175, 176, 177

Benét, William Rose, 149, 161, 163, 233, 236, 237, 242, 577

Bennett, Arnold, 312

Benson, Sally, 537

Bentley, Eric, 622, 634

Berea College, Kentucky, 134, 139–40, 141–44

Berenson, Bernard, 413

Bergman, Ingmar, 699

Bergner, Elisabeth, 568

Bergson, Henri, 224, 438

Bernstein, Leonard, 648

Bingham, Hiram III, 159

Bissell, Bill, 191, 243

Blaine, James G., 114

Blumer, George, 235

Bokum, Dick, 397, 400

Boleslavsky, Richard, 175, 221, 222, 233, 252–53, 272, 273, 275, 285, 287–88

Bolívar, Simón, 581

Boni, Albert, 241–43, 296, 300, 333;
see also
Albert & Charles Boni, Inc.

Book-of-the-Month Club, 300, 388, 394, 587, 589, 675

Booth, Shirley, 646

Bordeaux, Henry, 150

Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio, 600

Borkh, Inge, 653, 674

Boston:

Merchant
tryout in, 471

Our Town
film premiere in, 488–89

Our Town
stage tryout in, 450–52

Boston Transcript,
168, 243

Bourdet, Édouard, 290

Brett, Dorothy, 658

Brewster, Kate, 355

Brice, Fanny, 532

Bridge of San Luis Rey, The
(TNW):

characters and plot of, 185, 259, 307–12, 313, 499

evolution of, 262, 271, 272, 273, 276, 277, 278–81, 284, 291, 294, 295–96, 298, 333, 558–59, 628, 648

publication of, 275, 299–300, 301–2, 388, 456

public response to, 303–4, 312–14, 324, 408

setting of, 508, 519, 664

success of, 312–14, 324, 325, 328, 329, 330, 349

themes of, 258, 306–7, 336, 351, 569, 602, 629, 686

Brontë, Charlotte, 631

Brooke, Rupert, 127

Brown, John Mason, 240

Brown, Rollo, 514

Browne, Sir Thomas,
Religio Medici,
107, 108–9

Brunauer, Dalma H., 686

Bryce, James, 224

Buber, Martin, 640

Buck, Pearl, 616

Buckwitz, Harry, 653

Bunche, Ralph, 663

Burlingham, Dorothy, 409

Burnett, Whit, 678

Burton, Richard, 630

Butcher, Fanny, 355, 396, 397, 400, 675

Bynner, [Harold] Witter, 658

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 157

 

Cabala, The
(TNW), 254–55, 260, 288, 299, 302, 388

as
Boy Sebastian,
197, 263

characters and plot of, 259, 263–67, 271, 305, 306, 335, 342–43

errata in, 268, 270, 305, 314

evolution of, 258–59, 262–63, 271, 285

as
Marcantonio,
243–44

as
Memoirs/Year in Rome,
197, 219–20, 221, 225, 226, 238, 242–45, 249, 263

public response to, 268–70, 272, 278–79, 295, 408

setting of, 262, 263, 266

success of, 269–70, 286, 328

themes of, 256, 258, 265, 267, 336, 351, 589, 670, 686

as
Trasteverine,
207, 208, 263

Cabell, James Branch, 278, 298, 319

Cahn, Sammy, 652

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 213–14

California Festival, 462–64

Campbell, Gladys, 353, 523

Campbell, Joseph, 545–48, 555–56

Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 649

Canby, Henry Seidel, 161, 176–77, 194, 216, 300, 546

Canfield, Cass, 315, 388, 669, 674

Capra, Frank, 390, 538

Carducci, Giosuè, 27

Carey, MacDonald, 538

Carney, Art, 652

Carter, John, 161

Casals, Pablo, 663

Cather, Willa, 278, 298, 313

Catullus, 572

Century Association, 591

Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago (1933), 356–57, 390

Cerf, Bennett, 242, 406, 547

Chaliapin, Boris, 623

Chandlee, Harry, 483

Chaplin, Charlie, 232, 413, 479, 508

Chekhov, Anton, 206, 253, 254, 306, 687

Cheshire, Fleming, 61

Chesterton, G. K., 314

China:

APW in Shanghai, 30–31, 32–42, 47–49, 50, 56–57, 61, 67, 75–77, 78–80

and Hong Kong,
see
Hong Kong

missionaries in, 29, 36–37, 41–42, 44, 46, 53–54, 62

riots in, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 78

U.S. recognition of, 66

China Inland Mission School, Chefoo, 40–49, 50–59, 62–63, 68, 71

Cicero, 572, 580, 581, 589

Circle in the Square, New York, 651–52

Claudel, Paul, 263

Clift, Montgomery, 540, 554, 566, 619, 628, 629–30, 631

Clodius Pulcher, 572

Coast Artillery Corps, 165–66

Cocteau, Jean, 238, 477

Coffin, Catherine, 650, 658, 665, 699

Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 699, 701

Colefax, Arthur, 413

Colefax, Sibyl:

death of, 608–9, 694

as designer, 431

and friendship, 395, 403, 413–14, 427, 553, 590, 604

and Harris, 349, 444, 445, 446

salon of, 413–14

TNW's letters to, 332, 338–39, 344–45, 353, 360–61, 412, 418, 419, 472, 473, 474, 498, 508, 552, 565, 665

and TNW's work:
Alcestiad
, 567;
Heaven's
, 345, 361;
Ides
, 581;
Merchant
, 472;
Our Town
, 427, 442, 530;
Skin,
541, 544

and war, 467, 525, 526, 529

Coleman, Ronald, 384

Collinge, Patricia, 538

Colum, Padraic, 237, 485, 549

Con, Louis, 262

Connelly, Marc, 399, 452, 497, 620

Green Pastures,
442

Cooper, Gary, 390

Copland, Aaron, 648

Cornell, Katharine “Kit,” 353, 359–60, 395, 403, 406, 418

Cosmopolitan Productions, 386

Cotten, Joseph, 537

Cousins, Norman, 547

Coward, Noël, 353, 555, 608

Coward, Tim, 574

Coward-McCann, 315, 324, 348, 349, 369, 458, 460, 514, 574

Cowl, Jane, 470, 471

Cowley, Malcolm, 177, 615, 675, 698–99

Cowper, William, 317

Cozzens, James Gould, 332

Craven, Frank, 445, 452, 465, 479, 480, 483

Crawford, Cheryl, 479, 668

Cronyn, Hume, 538

Crowther, Bosley, 489

Crozier, Eric, 453

Cukor, George, 362, 383, 444, 463, 535

cummings, e. e., 177

 

Dadaism, 220

Dakin, Janet Wilder, 568, 623–24

death of, 701

early years of,
see
Wilder, Janet Frances

wedding of, 511–13, 517

Dakin, Winthrop Saltonstall “Toby,” 508, 511–12, 568, 623

Damita, Lili, 333

Dana, J. Dwight, 315, 328–29, 333, 346–47, 352, 387, 388, 398, 400, 445, 449, 452, 453, 475, 477, 487, 509, 511, 512, 517, 518, 519, 531, 554, 555–56

Dane, Clarence, 286

Dante Alighieri, 185, 426, 459, 515

Dark Angel
(film), 384

Davies, Arthur B., 112

Davies, Marion, 385, 463

Davis, Robert Frederick, 400, 403

De Bosis, Adolfo, 192

De Bosis, Lauro, 192, 238, 278, 584–85

Defense of Democracy League, 504

Defoe, Daniel, 631

De la Mare, Walter, 213

DeMott, Benjamin, 655

De Sica, Vittorio, 620, 638

DeVane, William C., 176

Dial,
208

Dickens, Tom, 213

Dickinson, Emily, 439, 607, 608, 609, 610–11, 615, 616

Dietrich, Marlene, 383

Disney, Walt, 412, 479

Dodge, Mabel,
see
Luhan, Mabel Dodge

Donoghue, Margaret, 11, 37, 40, 49, 51